Operating Systems

Intel releases new graphics driver with Dragon Age: The Veilguard support and more
Intel has released a new graphics driver with optimizations and support for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Red Dead Redemption, REDACTED, and more. Read more...
2024-10-30 07:56
OpenAI will use AMD chips, reportedly working with Broadcom on custom AI hardware
OpenAI has assembled a 20-person chip development team to work with Broadcom on developing a custom AI inference chip. Read more...
2024-10-30 07:40
TECH_BARGAINS 10/30: AMD RX 7900 XTX, 8TB WD SN850X with heatsink, and many more SSDs
In today's TECH_BARGAINS, we cover some of the best deals of the day, including AMD's flagship RX 7900 XTX for a very enticing price, WD SN850X, several Hynix SSDs, and more. Read more...
2024-10-30 07:24
Premium Samsung phones in the future may ditch the 'Galaxy' branding
It is reported that future premium Samsung phones may not use "Galaxy" branding to stand out from the company's crowded smartphone portfolio. Read more...
2024-10-30 07:10
Leaked specs of the Google Pixel 9a suggest you will be getting more for the same price
The Google Pixel 9a is expected to launch early next year, and the latest leak reveals its complete specifications. Read more...
2024-10-30 06:54
Google posts strong Q3 2024 results with Google Cloud revenue up 35% to $11.4 billion
Alphabet's Q3 2024 earnings showed strong growth across the company, with a 15% increase in overall revenue. Read more...
2024-10-30 06:38
DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs
DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR c...
2024-10-30 06:23
RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance
The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver used by all modern AMD Radeon graphics hardware has landed support in Mesa 24.3 for async VCE/UVD video operations to enhance the performance with the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library...
2024-10-30 06:09
VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU
Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream...
2024-10-30 06:01
Wasmer 5.0 WebAssembly Runtime Released With V8, WAMR & WASMI Backends
Wasmer 5.0 is now available as the latest major update to this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime focused on being able to allow developers to write "universal apps" that will run anywhere thanks to the power and versatility of WebAssembly...
2024-10-30 05:48
Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Initial AI Feature
Shotcut 24.10 is now available as the latest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT framework, Qt6, FFmpeg, SDL, and other software components...
2024-10-30 05:38
Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Released with AI-Powered Speech to Text
Shotcut 24.10 open-source video editor is now available for download with a new AI-powered speech-to-text feature based on OpenAI's Whisper, as welll as other changes. Here's what's new! The post Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Released with AI-...
2024-10-30 01:30
Gentler Streak adds new sleep insights with its latest update
Apple Watch has gained a lot of sleep monitoring features in recent years, but there are still third-party apps that provide a more in-depth analysis of your sleep data. One of these apps is Gentler Streak, and its latest update adds new insights and o...
2024-10-29 23:16
The new Mac mini shows that Apple still excels at building the best computers
Apple on Tuesday introduced a new generation of the Mac mini, and it’s impressively mini – much more compact than its predecessor. But the new Mac mini isn’t just about a new design, it’s also about incredible engineering. It shows how Apple st...
2024-10-29 22:51
M4 Mac mini tidbits: Design changes, external display support, more
Apple toady officially unveiled the redesigned Mac mini powered by M4 and M4 Pro. The new model features a drastically smaller form factor, USB-C ports on the front, 16GB of RAM as the base configuration, and more. Here are a few more tidbits about the...
2024-10-29 21:16
ONLYOFFICE 8.2 Improves Startup Times, Adds New Theme + More
A big update to ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux is available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.2 offers a clutch of new features, several performance gains, and a miscellany of smaller enhancements acr...
2024-10-29 21:06
Intel Posts Updated Raptor Lake Microcode For Linux: Fixes Voltage Issue & Other Bugs
Intel off their typical second Tuesday of the month patch regiment today posted new CPU microcode just for 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" and 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors for Linux systems. Notable with the updated Raptor Lake CPU microcode is the...
2024-10-29 20:36
Turtle Beach's wild new Xbox controller rotates buttons in and out of the gamepad like a sci-fi gadget, and you can preorder it now
Gaming peripheral maker Turtle Beach has announced the Stealth Pivot Xbox controller, a gamepad with unique revolving button modules that give you access to a separate set of inputs.
2024-10-29 20:34
A daring developer reincarnates Clippy from the Microsoft Graveyard to pop up like an AI genie with insightful details about cryptic screenshots on Windows PCs — like Google's Circle to Search tool
An avid developer recently shared a project dubbed AI-Snip, which brings back Clippy from the Microsoft Graveyard to provide insightful information about obscure things captured in screenshots you might not understand.
2024-10-29 20:33
Homeworld 3 is the latest game to remove Denuvo DRM
The Denuvo Anti-Tamper solution is no longer a part of Homeworld 3. The Gearbox-published RTS title has been silently updated to remove the DRM tech. Read more...
2024-10-29 20:12